Our government wants us shopping online. Makes it easier to monitor what we’re doing, keeps us home and it’ll easier for them to usher in the fifteen-minute cities.
“Our government wants us shopping online.”
Maybe they do, but in my opinion, online shopping is the main reason for the decline of malls.
An advantage of online shopping that’s not mentioned much is that we have such a tremendous amount of goods to choose from, that you can’t put the entire variety into areas that people walk around in.
Clothes is a perfect example. Are you likely to find exactly what pair of jeans you want in a walk-in store? Brand, length, waste, color, style... Try something on in a store and then go to Amazon to buy the exact combination you want.
In the mall nearest us, a Bed Bath and Beyond shut down a few months ago. Today my wife found that a Holly Hobby is moving into the space. A K-mart shut down a few years ago. A Target is now there.
The culprit if you want to call it that is technology.